State aid (notification)

Institution Definition

EU State aid control requires prior notification of all new aid measures to the Commission. Member States must wait for the Commission’s decision before they can put the measure into effect. There are a few exceptions to mandatory notification, for example: aid covered by a Block Exemption (giving automatic approval for a range of aid measures defined by the Commission), de minimis aid not exceeding €200,000 per undertaking over any period of 3 fiscal years (€100,000 in the road transport sector) or aid granted under an aid scheme already authorised by the Commission. European Commission

Articles

Jorge Padilla, Nicolas Petit Competition policy and the Covid-19 opportunity

May 2020

This short paper argues that the Covid-19 crisis provides an opportunity for improvements in long term growth in the EU by allowing the exit of zombie firms that trap industries into low productivity cycles, limited technology diffusion, and weak economic dynamism. To seize this opportunity, (...)

Stéphane Rodrigues Droit procédural des aides d’État. Textes et commentaires, Juan Ignacio SIGNES DE MESA and Aymeric DE MONCUIT

February 2020

This section selects books on themes related to competition laws and economics. This compilation does not attempt to be exhaustive but rather a survey of themes important in the area. The survey usually covers publication over the last three months after publication of the latest issue of (...)

Stéphane Rodrigues Manuel de droit européen des aides d’État, Michaël KARPENSCHIF

February 2020

Dušan Mitrović Serbia: Reflections on the new State aid regime

February 2020

On October 10, 2019, Serbian parliamentarians have voted in favour of adopting the new State Aid Control Act. In the past ten years, the enforcement activity in the field of State aid in Serbia has been somewhat subpar. The legal community still awaits the first decision of the State aid (...)

Stéphane Rodrigues Aides d’État, Marianne DONY

September 2019

David Bosco Droit des affaires de l’Union européenne, Jean-Bernard BLAISE and Anne-Sophie CHONÉ-GRIMALDI

February 2018

Stéphane Rodrigues EU State Aid Control - Law and Economics

May 2017

EU State Aid Control: Law and Economics thoroughly explores the main rationales of State aid control, the main policy concerns and the various trade-offs that underlie the rules and the decisions taken by the European Commission and the Courts. In recent years, the European Commission has (...)

Francesco Martucci Enforcement of EU State Aid Law at National Level: Reports from the 27 Members States

May 2011

This book corresponds to the study commissioned by the European Commission from Hogan Lovells on the application of State aid law in the Member States. In 2005, the European Commission concluded a research contract with the law firm Lovells - now Hogan Lovells - on the implementation of state (...)

Laurence Idot Focus on "mutations" of State aid law

February 2010

State aid policy, a specificity of European Union law, is at the heart of the current financial and economic crisis. Although such an evolution could not have been foreseen, the review of this policy, in the context of the Lisbon strategy, has been at the heart of the EU Competition Policy (...)

Ainura Abdyrakunova, Niyazbek Aldashev, Volker Soyez Merger control in Central Asia: Mandatory pre-merger notification

February 2009

This brief article provides an introduction to merger control in Central Asia and its enforcement by the local competition authorities. Merger Control regimes exist in all Central Asian countries. They largely follow the western models and they all provide for mandatory premerger notification (...)

Anna A. Chehtova Bulgaria: The 2008 Competition Act

February 2009

La nouvelle loi bulgare sur la concurrence, entrée en vigueur le 2 Décembre 2008, a comme objet l’harmonisation du droit de la concurrence bulgare avec les règles communautaires. La loi introduit les fondations d’un programme de réduction et d’exemption des sanctions ainsi que une action en (...)

Agnès Maitrepierre, Alain Ménéménis, Amandine Zelenko, Anne Fort, Carine Soulay, Christian Lambert, Christopher Bellamy QC, David Spector, Denys de Bechillon, Emmanuel Glaser, Eric Ginter, François Tanguy, Guylain Clamour, Jacques Biancarelli, Jacques Derenne, Jean-Christophe Moraud, Jean-Claude Bonichot, Jean-Louis Colson, Jean-Marc Sauvé, Jean-Yves Chérot, Laurent Richer, Marie-Christine Lepetit, Marie-Dominique Hagelsteen, Mario Monti, Philippe Martin, Pierre-François Racine State Aid Colloquium, 14 March 2008

September 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS OPENING REMARKS Mr Jean-Marc SAUVÉ, Vice-President of the Conseil d’Etat Mr Mario MONTI, Former European Commissioner for Competition, President of the Bocconi University of Milan IS STATE AID CONTROL POLICY A COMPETITION POLICY? Introduction: Mrs Marie-Dominique (...)

Beligh Nabli Aides d’Etat

September 2005

The book that caught our attention is soberly entitled "State Aid". It is the result of an international colloquium organised on 13 October 2004 by the Institute of European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles in collaboration with the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU. This (...)

Events

Georges Siotis, Jacques Derenne, François-Charles Laprévote, Nicole Robins WEBINAR #3 State aid in the COVID-19 context

14 April 2020

Third Webinar of the "Quarantine Webinar Series" organised by Concurrences with Jacques Derenne (Partner, Sheppard Mullin – Associate Professor, Liège University & Brussels School of Competition), François-Charles Laprévote (Partner, Cleary Gottlieb), Nicole Robins (Partner, Oxera) and Georges Siotis (Consultant, Compass Lexecon – Associate Professor, University Carlos III Madrid).

Josep M. Carpi Badia, Karl Soukup WEBINAR #1 Coronavirus crisis - The DG COMP’s response (State aid & Mergers)

7 April 2020

Inaugural webinar of the "Quarantine Webinar Series" organised by Concurrences with Karl Soukup (Director of the State aid General Scrutiny and Enforcement’s Direction, DG COMP), and, Josep Carpi Badia (Head of the Mergers case support and policy’s Unit, DG COMP).

Bertrand Jéhanno, Olivier Sautel, Penelope Papandropoulos, Stéphane Hautbourg State aid and economic analysis Towards an effect based approach?

11 May 2016

Law & Economics Workshop organized by Concurrences Review in partnership with Gide Loyrette Nouel and Microeconomix.

Kai Struckmann, Laurent Eymard, Mark D. Powell, Max Lienemeyer The EC tax probe : When State Aid met tax

25 January 2016

Lunchtalk organised by concurrences in partnership with MAPP and White & Case.

Marie Hindré, Martine Behar-Touchais, Simon Genevaz Exchange of information in the course of merger

10 April 2015

Workshop organized by Concurrences in partnership with DLA Piper.

Francesco Martucci, Leo Flynn, Michel Debroux The private investor principle in the recent State aid case law

17 March 2015

Workshop organized by Concurrences in partnership with Reed Smith.

Francesco Martucci, Michel Debroux The private investor in State aid Cases

13 February 2015

Leo Flynn
Michel Debroux
Francesco Martucci

Michel Debroux, Phedon Nicolaides, Sophie Borenstein State aids and tax measures

31 January 2014

Antitrust Procedure Workshop organized by Concurrences in partnership with Reed Smith.

Michel Debroux, Phedon Nicolaides State aids and taxation

29 January 2014

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V

A

Absolute territorial protection • Abuse of dominant position • Abuse of economic dependence • Access to essential facility • Access to information • Access to the file • Agency agreement • Agent • Agreement (notion) • Amicus curiae • Ancillary restraints • Annulment • Anticompetitive objet or effect • Anticompetitive practices • Applicable law • Arbitration • Article 11 letter

B

Barriers to entry • Bid rigging • Black cause • Block exemption (Regulation) • Boycott • Brand competition • Burden of proof • Business secrets • Buyer power

C

Cartel • Clearance phase I (merger) • Clearance phase II (merger) • Collecting society • Collective dominance • Collective redress (class action) • Comity • Competence • Competition policy • Competition policy • Complaint • Compliance programme • Compulsory license • Concerted practices • Concession • Concurrent jurisdiction • Consumers protection • Consumers’ associations • Control (change) • Control (notion) • Cooperation Agreement • Cooperation between competition authorities • Coordinated effects • Copyright • Corporate group • Corruption • Cost-based access • Criminal sanctions • Cross subsidisation

D

Damages • Dawn raids • De minimis notice • Direct effect • Discriminatory practices • Distribution agreement • Dominance (notion)

E

ECHR • Economic analysis • Economic efficiency • Economies of scale • Effect on trade between Member States • Effective judicial protection • Environmental protection • Essential facility • European Competition Network (ECN) • Excess prices • Exchanges of information • Exclusive distribution • Exclusive purchasing • Exclusive right (Art. 106 TFEU) • Exclusivity clause • Exhaustion • Extra-territoriality

F

Failing firm defence • Fidelity rebates • Fine • Fine mitigating • Foreign direct investment (FDI) • Franchising • FRAND

G

Geographic market • Group purchasing organization • Gun jumping

H

Hard core restrictions • Horizontal agreement

I

Individual exemption • Intellectual property right • Interim measures • International competition network (ICN) • Investigations / inquiries

J

Joint control • Joint venture • Judicial review

L

Legal privilege • Leniency • Licensing • Limitation period • Low prices

M

Mandatary (distribution) • Margin squeeze • Market economy investor • Market power • Market share • Media pluralism • Merger (notion) • Merger (prohibition) • Merger (withdrawal) • Minority shareholdings • Misinformation • Misinformation

N

Ne bis in idem • Network effect • Non-competition clause • Notification • Nullity

O

Oligopoly

R

Referral (merger) • Refusal to deal • Regulated prices • Relevant market • Remedies (antitrust) • Request for information • Resale price maintenance (RPM) • Resale-below-cost • Right against self-incrimination • Rights of defence • Rule of reason

S

Sector inquiry • Selective distribution • Services of general economic interest • Single branding • Sole control • Spill-over effects • Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) • State action defense • State aid (compatibility) • State aid (existing aid) • State aid (notification) • State aid (notion) • State aid (recovery) • State aid (tax ruling) • State aid (unlawful aid) • State measure • Substitutability • Sudden break of established business relationships

T

Test SIEC (merger) • Test SLC (merger) • Transfer of technology • Transfer pricing • Transparency • Trustee (mergers) • Turnover threshold (merger) • Two-sided market • Tying or tied selling

U

Undertaking (notion) • Unfair competition • Universal service • Upstream market

V

Vertical agreement • Vertical restraints (or restrictions)